So you’re registered to vote. Well, now comes the fun part.
Some of us have already received our mail-in ballots. Except we’re not mailing them in. We’re dropping them off.
We’re endorsing Hillary O’Connor Mueri for Congress, and Mansfield has some ideas for making change real. You can go Stridin’ For Biden in Strongsville or Shaker Hts, and we’ve got a PHOTOSTREAM of the first day of voting at the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections.
Since we’re not changing enough to flatten the curve, our fabulous arts community will continue to livestream in the meantime: The Chagrin Doc Film Fest, the Food Strong benefit, the kick-off of DANCECleveland’s virtual season, the Maltz PAC, the Diamond Brass Quintet, TCO, are all virtual, while a few events take place in person: two dozen CCPL branches have re-opened, Latino Restaurant Week offers something new, Akron Soul Train carefully exhibits work, and Maelstrom is re-inventing itself again.
The Birth of Punk in Cleveland Akron & Kent is splitting the difference: a safe, LIVE, outdoor music concert on Wednesday, followed by two livestream events with exclusive interviews and video, plus lots of music. Don’t miss it.
Remember when we thought things would bounce back by mid-summer or at least by fall, so festivals moved their dates from June to September? Then big concert tours started kicking the can to 2021. Now we’re wondering if next year will be more of the same. The Thanksgiving Polka weekend just announced it’s skipping a year; February’s Brite Winter has been cancelled & the Cleveland International Film Fest in April is now all-virtual. Change is not happening fast enough. Read More
The Maltz Performing Arts Center debuted its Silver Hall series of twice-weekly streaming concerts in August. Due to their popularity, they’ll continue through December. Hear theatrical rock band Apostle Jones Sunday October 11. Read More
The more than two dozen branches of the Cuyahoga County Public Library have reopened for business and services of all kinds, including passport processing. Read More
We haven’t heard from Cleveland’s Extra Medium Pony in a few years, but now they’re back with a new album called Traffic, revolving around band leader Rick Spitalsky’s phobic anxiety, pre-pandemic. Read More
Cleveland online streaming radio station oWOW Radio signed off on October 2 after 5 1/2 years, a victim of the pandemic. But it will keep streaming its distinctive adult rock through October at least while it looks for ways to stay on the air. Read More
The Cleveland Public Library has made some pandemic changes. Many of its resources are now online and it will ship materials to those over 60 and the disabled as part of its new Homebound Service. Read More
Get ready for two exciting livestream nights on Thursday & Friday exploring The Birth of Punk in Cleveland, Akron & Kent, complete with exclusive live music & interviews with artists who were on the scene as our region invented one of the most revolutionary movements of all time: PUNK.
Preceded by a LIVE, outdoor, safe concert by Vanity Crash at BOP STOP on Wednesday. Yes, we said LIVE, outdoor and safe. When was the last time that happened? Photos by Anastasia Pantsios: Dead Boys & DEVO. Read More
Hillary O’Connor Mueri aka Toro comes from a union family & is a former Navy pilot. She’s running for the 14th district congressional seat in the northeast corner of Ohio. It’s currently held by “the man who wasn’t there,” the invisible David Joyce, who fronts as a moderate and votes with Trump. Learn more about why we support Toro & her fight for quality health care & living-wage jobs for all. Read More
WED 10/14 Prints That Say Something Detroit’s Amos Kennedy has earned a national reputation for his posters which use artful lettering to make political, social and artistic statements. They’re on view at KSU’s Downtown Gallery.
MANSFIELD
Summonsing One’s Humanity
Indeed, I could go on ad infinitum about how a goodly percentage of Americans have allowed themselves to be led down a primrose path by a delusional, narcissistic megalomaniac but what good would it do? As Mark Twain said, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”… Read MoreA Night of Losers
There is a way to control the nonsense that occurred on the campus of Case/Cleveland Clinic: shut off each candidate’s microphone when their allotted two minutes of speaking is finished, allowing the other candidate to respond uninterrupted. But if I were Biden I would simply refuse… Read MoreYellow Journalism at “Scene”? Scene magazine, that stalwart defender of Cleveland’s black community — oh wait, scratch that — any attention this rag has directed toward local persons of color has for the most part been negative, or back-handed concern at best…. Read More
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I’m damn tired of “journalistic colonialism” where someone from outside of a community seeks to swoop in and frame the conversation regarding a community of color, as if we black folk have no opinion, or if we do, we don’t know how to express it. In point of fact, I do have an opinion… Read More
